Research Catalog

Title

Changing Japanese identities in multicultural Canada / edited by Joseph F. Kess ... [et al.].

Publication

Victoria, B.C. : University of Victoria, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Kess, Joseph F.
• UVic Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives.

Description

ix, 573 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Japanese > Canada > Ethnic identity
• Canada > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Note

• "Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Includes some text in Japanese.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- Roy Miki and Terry Watada / Midge M. Ayukawa -- 2. Turning in, turning out : the shifting formations of "Japanese Canadian" from uprooting to redress / Roy Miki -- 3. Becoming Japanese Canadian / Terry Watada -- Ethnicity, identity, and multiculturalism -- 1. Redefining multiculturalism / Karen Mock -- 2. Identity, multiculturalism and Japanese identity / Bernard Saint-Jacques -- 3. Construcing ethnicity through social critique : cultural expressions of Japanese Canadians in post-internment Canada / Masumi Izume -- 4. What do minority ethnic older people prefer for care in later life : does the ethnic identity matter in later life? / Atsuko Karin Matsuoka -- Language, culture and ethnicity of the Bonin Islands, Japan /Aoi Tsuda -- 6. Japanese language and culture studies in Taiwan -- 7. Imagined war and nations : Canadian wartime propaganda films and representation of 'Yamato race' / Chikako Nagayama -- 8. Translating translated identity / Sumiko Nishizawa -- 9. Urban realism, the traveller, and homecoming : reflections of an immigrant artist / Tadanobu (Tad) Suzuki -- 10. Homepages as representations of identity / Gordon S. Gamlin -- 11. Zen, bushido and anime : some reflections on orientalism and the study of Japan / William Less -- Japanese Canadian oral histories -- 1. Oral history -- Introduction / Midge Ayukawa -- 2. Oral history : turning points / Midge Ayukawa -- 3. A fisherman/carpenter's turning point / Susumu Tabata -- 4. "Shi a wa se" to be Japanese-Canadian / Yoshimi Susan Maikawa -- 5. Mary's story / Mary Kitagawa -- 6. An everday life : the lived experience of a Japanese-Canadian fisherman / Paul Kariya -- 7. Outline for moderator of panel / Stan Fukawa.
• Japanese Canadian histories -- 1. The tangled identity of Issei Japanese in their fight for franchise, 1900-1931 / Hiroko Takamura -- 2. Segregation of Japanese children in British Columbia schools in the 1920s : Japanese struggle for "equal" access / Ryo Yoshida -- 3. A Japanese who became bigger in Canada : a footnote to the life-history of Ryuichi Yoshida by Rolf Knight and Maya Koizumi / Kimitada Miwa -- 4. Oikawa Jinsaburo : Meiji entrepreneur in Canada / David Sulz -- 5. A remarkable life : pioneer Japanese-Canadian artist and photographer Paul Louis (Tsunenojo) Okamura : 1865-1937 -- 6. Shigaken hassaka chomin no kazoku iminshi : bankuubaa no seikatsu o chuushin ni (Family histories of immigrants from Hassaka town in Shiga prefecture : focussing on their lives in Vancouver) / Suehisa Kuroda -- Culture-related gender issues -- 1. Can a geisha or a japanese woman speak in Canada? / Etsuko Kato -- 2. Japanese dancer in the view of Canadian artists / Naoko Murakoshi -- 3. Performing "natural" : gender discourses and the Japanese female outdoor guides in the Canadian Rockies / Shiho Satsuka -- 4. Mapping the female body : the "good wife, wise mother" ideology / Sonoe Ueno -- 5. The invisible wounds of Ainu Shamaness : "them", "us", or just another witch? / Sakurako Sherry Tanaka -- 6. The shifts in Japanese women's beautification practices and their perceptions of beauty / Chiaki Iida -- 7. Writing woman, writing Canada : modern poetry, gendaishi, and Japanese/Canadian female poets / Janice Brown
• 8. Understanding silence : finding meaning in the oral testimonies of Nisei women in Canada / Pamela Sigiman -- 9. Across five generations and beyond : learning from and sharing with Nikkei women's narratives, a Shin-Isseiʼs perspective / Yuko Shibata -- 10. The rider with the Mursaki mask : Hiromi Goto's Chorus of mushrooms / Nozomi Riddington -- 11. Sansei woman : longing to belong / Rochelle Yamagishi -- Language issues -- 1. Multilingualization -- a breakthrough into Japanese langauage consciousness? / Hiroshi Shoji -- 2. Impact of glabalization on Japanese language and culture : another identity crisis? / Norio Ota -- 3. Do katakana -- words (loan words) transform the Japanese language? : on the increasing usage of Katakana -- words and recent changes in Japanese writing style [Japanese] / Michio Inoue -- 4. Multilingual multicultural Japan : polivies for majority language instruction and heritage language maintenance / Sandra Fotos -- 5. Standard langauge and dialects in Japan : on the roles of NHK as a language planner / Naoto Takano -- 6. Styes of Hai-Nichie essasy in the magazin Taiyo in the 1920s / Michiko Oda -- 7. Language difference and language encoding / Nobuo Sato -- 8. JiBOOKS : an image-based Japanese-language data retrieval system / Eric Long, Yokoyama Shoichi, Kumagai Yasuo, Yoneda Junko, and Joseph F. Kess -- 9. What is a Japanese class really like? : using classroom research to reveal and negotiate Japanese students' expectations of classroom culture / Tom Whalley -- 10. Being inbetween two langauges : Japanese/English / Hisako Hayashi -- 11. The new dream of the Japanese youth : studying abroad for learning English in Canada [Japanese] -- 12. Synopsis of heritage language panel [English] / Hiroko Noro -- 13. Synopsis of heritage language panel [Japanese] / Horoko Noro.
• Japanese studies in Canada -- 1. History of Japanese studies in Canada : 1960-1999 / Fumiko Ikawa-Smith -- 2. The state of Japan studies in Canada / Carin Holroyd -- 3. 'Sleeping with an elephant' : Canada, the United States and Herbert Norman, 1939-1957 / John Hilliker -- 4. Economic assimilation of Japanese immigrants in North America : the importance of county of origin as well as country of destination / Carl Mosk.

ISBN

1550582763 (pbk.) :

OCLC

52748548

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library